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Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: K-4 photo request
From: "Ezekiel Johnson" <fdlnmn@schoolemail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:43:20 -0000
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Randy,
If you haven't done so already I would reccomend searching the online 
photo collections from the denver public library
http://photoswest.org/
Just search for CB&Q and "4-6-0"
They may not be quite accurate enough to get measurements, but they 
are a big help with any scratchbuilding project.

-Zeke
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--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, Randy Gordon-Gilmore <zephyrus@r...> 
wrote:
> A K-4 ten-wheeler is to be my first scratch-built loco.  I think 
I'll need
> to scratch-build the drivers also (this is N scale) but I don't 
have any
> good-enough pictures of them.  So I am asking for some help, please.
> 
> If any of you are in the Alliance, Lincoln or Council Bluffs areas, 
could
> you please shoot a full-frame, straight on picture of one of the 
drivers?
> (Even 640x480 would be plenty good enough resolution.)  Alliance 
might be
> best since (from the one photo of #719 I've seen) there are no 
fences or
> railings in the way.  I don't know how #915 in Dodge Park is 
situated, but
> #710 in Lincoln is sitting behind some heavy decorative railings.
> 
> I just need the image to be clear enough to get the spoke width, 
and the
> radii where it meets the rim and center (mainly to see how small a 
milling
> cutter I'll need to use to machine the wheels)  I'd love to go in 
person
> and take photos and measurements, but for the near future I don't 
foresee
> that happening.
> 
> Thanks very much in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Randy
> 
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